It is both a little bit funny and a little bit sad, even a little pathetic, when a very old man tries to show he is as strong and active as a much younger man.
President Biden often tries to carry his arms and take a couple of quick steps when he comes on stage to make it look almost like he is running.
And because there have been many comments and reports about how weak his voice is, President Biden has begun to shout at times during his speeches, something he never did as a much younger man.
It is also both sad and funny, but certainly not surprising, to watch most of the national media jump as they always do on the Democrat bandwagon trying to get Biden to not run again.
In a survey released just last Dec. 30, Syracuse University’s School of Public Communications said the number of journalists identifying themselves as Republicans fell from 18% in 2002 and 7.1% in 2013 to just only 3.4% in 2022.
For many years, the national news media has been a very biased and very strong part of the Democrat Party.
I got a degree in journalism in 1969 and worked fulltime as a reporter for the Knoxville Journal, our morning daily newspaper, during my senior year. I then taught journalism for a year while I went to law school at night.
In those days, all respectable newspapers kept the opinion pages separate from the news pages. Real journalists prided themselves on their objectivity.
No longer. Now, most reporters seem to feel that they will not be respected by their fellow “journalists” if they don’t use words like “obviously false” or “without evidence” when reporting statements by former President Trump in what are supposed to be news stories.
The national media protected Biden all through the 2020 campaign. They would have crucified a Republican who hid in a basement like Biden did.
They knew they had to ask Trump tougher, even insulting, questions in very unfriendly, even hostile tones, while they asked Biden what kind of ice cream he was eating and other softball questions.
Now, beginning to feel guilty about being so easy on President Biden (and worried about potential Democrat losses) they are finally getting tough on him in hopes they can force him out. Even longtime Democrat George Stephanopoulos got tough on the President in his 22 minute interview with him.
And liberal newspapers like the New York Times, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and the Chicago Tribune, and liberal magazines like the New Yorker and the Economist have said Biden should pull out.
It may be too late for the national media to recover what little credibility they once had. Witness for instance the recent attack on the far-left bias of NPR from one of its very own top editors.
Also, the resignation of Bari Weiss, who describes herself as a “left-leaning centrist,” after she was not allowed to run conservative and moderate views as opinion page editor of the New York Times.
Then on July 5, Alex Berenson, a former longtime reporter for the New York Times, wrote in his popular online publication, Unreported Truths, that “the greatest loser from Joe Biden’s catastrophic meltdown during his debate last week with Donald Trump is not Biden himself.”
He added: “No, the greatest loser is the media, specifically elite news organizations like the New York Times that have teams of reporters covering the White House. These teams either somehow missed Biden’s sharp cognitive decline – or worse, actively covered it up.”
Berenson said: “Either way, a reckoning for the way media outlets have turned into spear-carriers for the Democratic Party may be coming. I hope it will be. It is long overdue.”
Whether Biden or someone else is the Democrat nominee, the election will be close because there is still so much bitter, Trump Derangement Syndrome in the country.
One of the most hate-filled women on national TV is MSNBC’s Joy Reid. She said on July 4 that she would vote for Joe Biden if he was in a coma to keep Trump, who she referred to as Hitler, out of the White House.
After what everyone has described as “Biden’s disastrous debate,” one of my wife’s very closest friends immediately started spouting off the Democrat talking points that Trump had told so many lies. Vickie asked her which lies. She could not name even one.
A final example of the national media’s extreme bias is in the way they describe even moderate conservatives as “far right” while never calling the mostly socialist Democrats as “far left.” And the only Republicans they will praise or treat with kid gloves are ones who are bitter at the party for some reason.
Reprinted with author’s permission from The Knoxville Focus.
